Politics

TORONTO — Ontario's health minister said it's a "personal choice" to wear a mask Tuesday, one day after the province's top doctor urged everyone to do so in all indoor spaces.

MONTREAL — The COVID-19 pandemic and the health measures brought in to limit it caused widespread collateral impacts that disproportionately harmed the most vulnerable, Montreal's public health director said Tuesday.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's Progressive Conservative government on Tuesday laid out its plans for the coming year in the annual throne speech. Here are some highlights: — New funding for hospital infrastructure and addiction treatment spaces.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A defendant charged alongside members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge ruled that a state agency previously led by Republican Josh Hawley broke public record laws on purpose to help his U.S. Senate campaign.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the days and weeks before the midterm election, President Joe Biden trumpeted his plan to cancel billions in student loans as he rallied young people to support Democrats.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — With Louisiana's highly anticipated gubernatorial race less than a year away, both of the state's U.S.

OTTAWA — Health Canada officials say more doses of children's painkillers and fever medication will be available soon, but they won't say how many or where exactly they'll be sent.

REGINA — Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer is not recommending masks as the province deals with a trifecta of respiratory viruses. Dr.

More than a decade of delay and inaction has left the ships, planes and satellites that monitor Canada's rapidly opening Arctic on track to be retired before they can be replaced, the auditor general says.